Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1
Synthetic Biodegradable Functional Poly(amino acid)s for Biomedical Applications
(Jianxun Ding, Jinjin Chen, Xiuli Zhuang and Xuesi Chen*
Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, People’s Republic of China)

Chapter 2
Fibrous Biomaterials from Proteins
(Helan Xu and Yiqi Yang, Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design, HECO Building, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA, and others)

Chapter 3
An Overview of A Novel Family of Nature-Inspired Design of Biodegradable Functional Amino Acid-based Poly(ester amide) Biomaterials: New Development, Property and Biomedical Applications
(C. C. Chu, Biomedical Engineering Program, Dept. of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA)

Chapter 4
The New Functional Segmented Urethanes Biomaterials for Biomedical Studies: Design for Biocompatibility, Biodegradability, Self-assembly in Nanoscale
(Mingyu He and Chih-Chang Chu, Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, and others)

Chapter 5
Biologically Inspired Engineering of Chitin and Chitin Derivatives: Nanoassemblies, Biocomposites and Bioprotonic Transistors
(Chao Zhong, MIT Synthetic Biology Center, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and others)

Chapter 6
Biodegradable Polymeric Materials from Algae
(Eliza Ayton, Mark Ashton Zeller, Ryan Hunt, Alexander Jones and Suraj Sharma, Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, and others)

Chapter 7
Poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (P4HB) in Biomedical Applications and Tissue Engineering
(Kai Guo, and David P. Martin, Tepha, Inc., Lexington MA, USA)

Chapter 8
New PHB-producing Bacillus Strain from Environmental Samples
(Alejandra Rodríguez-Contreras, and María Soledad Marqués-Calvo, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia-Barcelona Tech, Barcelona, Spain, and others)

Chapter 9
Biodegradable Functionalized Aliphatic Polyester: Preparation and Biomedical Application
(Yan Zhang, Jinhong Li, Meidong Lang, and Chichang Chu, Biomedical Engineering Program, Dept. of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, and others)

Chapter 10
Densely Functionalized Biodegradable Polymers
(Ying Xu, Chao Peng, Sachin Gokhale, and Abraham Joy, Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA)

Chapter 11
Photoluminescent Biodegradable Polymers
(Zhiwei Xie, Yixue Su, Dingying Shan, Richard T. Tran, and Jian Yang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA)

Chapter 12
Dynamic Control of Degradable Thiol-ene Hydrogels
(Han Shih and Chien-Chi Lin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA)

Chapter 13
Biodegradable Polymer Nanoparticles
(Odinei H. Gonçalves, Fernanda V. Leimann, Fernanda R. Steinmacher, Luana B. Peres, Claudia Sayer, Pedro H. H. Araújo, Post-Graduation Program of Food Technology, Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil, and others)

Chapter 14
Nanostructured Strategies of Biodegradable Polymers for Soft and Hard Tissue Engineering Applications
(Venugopal J, Sridhar R, Gandhimathi C, Bhaarathy V, Sujana A and Ramakrishna S, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Index